Lifetime Mortages

Equity Release Group partners with Royal London Equity Release

Equity Release Group (ERG) has announced a new partnership with Responsible Lending, the exclusive...

Standard Life Home Finance offers free EPCs and cashback

Standard Life Home Finance has announced a new EPC scheme to encourage consumers to...

Air adds logging feature for CPD

Air, the later-life lending platform, has introduced a new CPD log feature for its...

Savings from voluntary lifetime mortgage repayments revealed

The Equity Release Council has reported that customers using equity release will save almost...

Perenna joins Air and its Advocate Ambassador programme

Perenna has announced its partnership with Air, the later-life lending platform for advisers and...

LiveMore removes maximum age and ups standard mortgage term

LiveMore has removed the maximum age and increased the term across its range of...

Air conference outlines need for later life industry evolution

Air held its fifth annual National Later Life Lending Conference last Thursday, where the...

Rise in broker satisfaction with lenders across all sectors

Smart Money People has published its H1 2024 Mortgage Lender Benchmark covering mortgage broker...

Just 1% real-term rise in weekly pension income over past decade

People on pension incomes have received minimal increases in real standards of living over...

MBE London and FIBA Summit programmes published

Mortgage Business Expo (MBE) has issued the programme for this year’s MBE London event. The...

Air outlines headline speakers for National Later Life Lending Conference

Air, the later life lending network, has announced the industry speakers who will headline...

Hodge, Livemore & Air Mortgage Club back later life events

Hodge, Livemore and the Air Mortgage Club are supporting the ‘Later Life Lending Collaboration,...

Legal & General Home Finance improves PTLM accessibility

Legal & General Home Finance has revised its Payment Term Lifetime Mortgage (PTLM) proposition...

Wilson and Tweed to leave as Air revamps senior team

Air has outlined the make-up of its new senior leadership team. Over the past...

COMMENT

Your clients can’t tell which firm they’re dealing with

Two clients walk into your firm in the same week. One of them is a referral from a mate of yours. Complicated case, self-employed, bit...

It’s time to look at retention

As the summer winds down and the back-to-school routine kicks back in, I urge the industry to turn its attention to something just as...

Landlords are buying – and advisers should take note

There has been no shortage of commentary over recent years suggesting landlords are heading for the exit, buy-to-let apparently no longer works and the...

Why energy efficiency is hiding mortgage portfolio risk

For years, ESG strategies across the UK mortgage sector have operated under a relatively straightforward principle: better Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) ratings equal lower...

Affordability shocks and expiring deals: why the 2026 mortgage peak demands a holistic protection review

I speak to mortgage advisers and brokers every day, and one topic keeps coming up - the sheer number of mortgage deals coming to...

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Stamp duty blamed as home moves fall to once every 21 years

Stamp duty is deterring millions of people from moving home and restricting opportunities for...

Pepper Money reduces residential and buy-to-let rates

Pepper Money has cut rates across its residential and buy-to-let mortgage ranges and launched...

Barclays to launch 24-hour fast-track remortgage service

Barclays is to introduce a fast-track remortgage service that could provide eligible borrowers with...

Conveybuddy reports 88% rise in instructions after two years

Conveyancing distributor conveybuddy has reported an 88% year-on-year increase in instructions as it marks...

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